2018-05-17: Updated my setup description that was outdated and covered the situation of 2014. Meanwhile, I maintain a comprehensive list of software I use. Therefore, I removed most references to software from this page.

On this page, I summarize my IT set-up according to the last update time-stamp above.

Business

At the office, they gave me a Fujitsu Lifebook U Series which is quite OK. It runs Windows 10 Professional and besides the usual Microsoft Office suite I added things like babun (Cygwin), GNU Emacs, and much more. I use a lenovo UltraNav keyboard (US international layout) and two external 24-inch TFT displays, where the main one is tilted to portrait orientation.

Future plans

Currently, I am very satisfied with my GNU/Linux setup.

Back in the days, when I was using OS X on my Mac Mini 2009, I was not satisfied with OS X: plugging in my FW800 backup disk corrupted my FW800 3TB disk fifty percent of the time. Apple did not give me an update path from 10.5 to a supported system. I was losing support for tools like the OS itself, Chrome, Flash, and so forth. Current Apple OS X versions I do not like either because of strategic decisions such as the heavy use of cloud-based services I want to avoid to protect my privacy.